Brad Hansen

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Brad Hansen worked for many years in the Space and Defense industry on various automated systems as a software engineer. At The Boeing Company he was responsible for validating the embedded flight software for the guidance, navigation and control systems of the Inertial Upper Stage (IUS), a Titan IV and Shuttle deployed booster rocket for orbital satellites and interplanetary missions including Magellan, Ulysses and Galileo. He later supported the development of mission unique IUS flight databases. Early in his career Mr. Hansen developed computer command and control system requirements for radar tracking of the Designating Optical Tracker (DOT), a missile system designed under contract for the U. S. Army to study the detection and discrimination of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) using infrared sensor technology. He also performed countdown and flight operations duties as a member of mission control team. Other projects at Boeing included the Air Warning and Control System (AWACS) and a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) study to find solutions to enhance software development productivity in defense systems projects.

For the past fifteen years Mr. Hansen has been an independent consultant and entrepreneur working primarily on prepackage software products and Information Technology (IT) projects. He founded OBjectic Systems, Inc. in 1990 to develop one of the first multimedia presentation software products, Fast Pitch Pro. In the mid to late nineties he developed several software solutions for Eli Lilly and Company including an inventory control and equipment cleaning-validation system in support of their purification pilot plant, and a chemical inventory control and dispensing system in support of their fermentation pilot plant.

Recently Mr. Hansen developed a Training Support System (TSS) Web application using J2EE technologies and an Oracle database for the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS). The TSS consisted of a reusable component architecture and integrated set of sub-applications to support the training needs of the DFAS workforce. It included an on-line course catalog, class schedules, training history, career development guides, and individual development plans (IDP). The IDP was an interactive transactional Web application that allowed each of the 15,000 DFAS employees to create their own unique training plan for the next fiscal year. Cumulative information obtained from the IDPs were then used to forecast and schedule classes, and to facilitate a class enrollment process.

Mr. Hansen earned a BS degree with distinction from Purdue University and an MBA degree from City University (Bellevue, WA). He has one patent award in electrical propulsion and one pending in aircraft design.